Dictionary meanings are now considered hate speech.
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Cheaters in sports always make it harder for those who want to participate fairly and squarely.
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Another video has been posted by WPUK of the now-infamous Brighton conference of a couple of weeks ago:
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No recall is going to happen for Oregon's governor Kate Brown. It was a dumb idea to begin with.
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| Bloom looking exasperated |
Obituary: Literary critic Harold Bloom, 89, who made a living writing bestselling books about what we should read in order to be "cultured," has died.
Bloom made a good living wringing his hands over the notion people weren't reading the "great books," most of them boring as fuck as in the case of fiction way overlong because there were few people around back in the day who edited these books down to be readable. Other "great books" were written in a style that is almost a foreign language in itself because the English of hundreds of years ago is archaic today (Shakespeare, the godawful Canterbury Tales).
Bloom wasn't the worst. Mortimer Adler was even more infuriating.
Anyway, Bloom had a family and lots of friends, so many mourned his passing. Incredibly, he taught college courses almost up to the end, according to his wife. The last class he taught was last Thursday.
This is one of the biggest reasons I like the teaching field and areas of it related. As long as I stay mentally sharp and reasonably healthy, I should be able to do this many more years.
Bloom once declared Shakespeare was "God," but Eric Clapton had first dibs on the God title.
Back to the obit:
The spotlight he commanded as a powerful cultural figure did not always flatter him. In 1990, GQ magazine, in an article titled “Bloom in Love,” portrayed him as having had intimate entanglements with female students. (“A disgusting piece of character assassination,” he was quoted as telling Mr. Begley in The Times Magazine.) And in a 2004 article in New York magazine, the writer Naomi Wolf wrote that he had once put his hand on her inner thigh when she was an undergraduate student. “Beautiful, brilliant students surrounded him,” she wrote. “He was a vortex of power and intellectual charisma.”
Professor Bloom vigorously denied her accusation.
The clarity of his prose was also questioned. “Harold is not a particularly good explainer,” his friend the poet John Hollander once told The Times, adding, “He’ll get hold of a word and allow this to generate a concept for him, but he’s not in a position to say very clearly what he means and what he’s doing.”
You can't win 'em all.
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Legendary racehorse Bodexpress broke his maiden today on the way to becoming Horse of the Year.
Yes, there was a jockey on him this time.
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Obituary: Noted musician George Chambers, 88, bassist for the gospel and rock group The Chambers Brothers, has died. The group was mostly gospel-oriented, but they had a massive, massive hit in 1967 with the iconic "Times Has Come Today."
He died Saturday.
Although they entered the greater public consciousness with a counterculture anthem in the late ’60s, the Chambers Brothers had been performing together since the 1950s, when, as a break from their duties as sharecroppers in rural Lee County, Mississippi, they started out as a gospel group.
George Chambers...was drafted into the Army during the Korean War. Upon getting out, he urged the group to move to L.A., where in the early 1960s the secularized combo became part of the local folk scene at clubs like the Ash Grove. They rose to more national prominence in 1965, around the time that Pete Seeger put them on the bill at the Newport Folk Festival.
The Brothers first released their mixture of rock, blues, soul and gospel through the Vault label, with versatility enough to cover both Curtis Mayfield and Gershwin. They then signed with Columbia Records in 1966, and first recorded “Time Has Come Today” as a two-and-a-half-minute single, which flopped. But an 11-minute-plus version recorded for their 1967 album “The Time Has Come,” which featured an extended psychedelic break, quickly became an FM staple. A four-minute single edit of this new version — with a superior arrangement to the original, but minus much of the album track’s psychedelia — crossed them over to AM radio, with a No. 11 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 little indicating just how ubiquitous the song was to become, then and later.
Oh, why not feature it here? It was truly legendary and totally unlike all their other recordings:
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